Cervical orthoses are used to immobilize the cervical spine (Schneider et al., 2007) while treating a range of neck impairments from muscle spasm to serious instability (Johnson et al., 1977; Johnson et al., 1981), such as after cervical spine surgery (Schneider et al., 2007) and spinal cord injury (Johnson et al., 1981; Stambolis et al., 2003). There are many different cervical orthoses availa...

Sir, Sertraline (Zoloft1) is a new selective inhibitor of serotonin re-uptake. This family of antidepressant drugs is considered to be safe, and cutaneous adverse reactions have rarely been reported (1). We report here a patient who developed StevensJohnson syndrome (SJS) after starting treatment with sertraline (Zoloft1). A 96-year-old woman was admitted with a cutaneous and mucosal eruption. ...

Johnson and Wright ~hereafter J&W! claim, in their brief communication entitled “Reply to Philipona and O’Regan” that there are various difficulties in the reasoning in Philipona and O’Regan’s ~2006! paper entitled “Color naming, unique hues and hue cancellation predicted from singularities in reflection properties,” which was published in this journal in 2006. These difficulties supposedly pre...

Hereditary or familial hiperbilirubinemia comprises a group of syndromes (Dubin-Johnson’s, Rotor’s, hepatic storage disease) in which hyperbilirubinemia, predominantly unconjugated or conjugated, occurs as an isolated biochemical abnormality without evidence of either hepatocellular necrosis or cholestasis. We present a patient with Dubin-Johnson syndrome, one of the familial disorders associat...